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Annamarie Murray(547 days)
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The Twilight Zone, Season 1 is the best The Twilight Zone has ever looked…they remastered all of it and the picture quality can not be beat…it is crystal clear..and Rod Serling is and will always be a master of his craft…money well well well spent..you will delight in this for years to come…my 10 year ancient son is now into it!!
List and Description of Episodes and Special Features:
Season 1
Episode 1: ‘Where is Everybody?’- Earl Holliman stars as a man on the edge of hysteria in a deserted town. Despite the emptiness, he has the weirdest feeling hes being watched.
Episode 2: ‘One for the Angels’- A Salesman cleverly eludes death. But if he lives a small girl must die in his place. Only the salesman greatest pitch can save her.
Episode 3: ‘Mr. Denton on Doomsday’- A drunk of a gunslinger finds his quick draw abilities can be restored by drinking a magic potion.
Episode 4: ‘The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine’- an aging former movie star lives and dreams in the past. She refuses to leave her screening room until she disapears.
Episode 5: ‘Walking Distance’- Martin Sloan is plays a frazzled executive who learns that you can go home again after he steps back in time and meets his mom his dad and himself.
Episode 6: ‘Escape Clause’- A hypocondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.
Episode 7: ‘The Lonely’- A convicted murderer incarcerated on a distant asteroid and is dying of lonliness.
Episode 8: ‘Time Enough at Last’- A Bookworm yearns for more time to read, then a nuclear holocaust leaves him alone in the world with lots of time, plenty to read and an ironic twist.
Episode 9: ‘Penchance to Dream’- A man whos terrified of falling asleep in dread he might die. His pursuer? A mysterious vixen he meets in his dreams.
Episode 10: ‘Judgement Night’- 1942, a german wonders why he is on the deck of a British Steamship with no memory of how he got there and impending doom.
Episode 11: ‘And When the Sky was Opened’- Col. Clegg Forbes ‘Rip Taylor’ and 2 astronauts return from their space flight. They soon learn that no one remembers them as if they never even existed.
Episode 12: ‘What You Need’- Two bit thug thinks hes found the key to a better life in and ancient sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what ‘they need’ most.
Episode 13: ‘The Four of us are Dying’- Gifted with the ability to change his face Arch Hammer devises a plot to elevate himself. The plot works perfectly until he’s caught with the incorrect face at the incorrect time.
Episode 14: ‘Third from the Sun’- William Surka and a friend steal an experimental spaceship and go off to an unknown planet.
Episode 15: I shot an Arrow into the Air’- The worlds first manned space mission goes awry stranding the crew on an asteroid that is desolate and waterless. One man ruthlessly grasps for survival before a peculiar symbol reveals the groups right location.
Episode 16: ‘The Hitchhiker’- Alone on a cross country trip Nan Adams ‘Inger Stevens’ has a blowout. Surviving the incident, she gets back on the road, only to see the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks.
Episode 17: ‘The Fever’- Tight fisted Franklin Gibbs is not pleased when his wife wins a trip for 2 to Vegas. But things change when he falls under the spell of a slot machine that calls his name!
Episode 18: ‘The Last Flight’- World War One flying ace ‘Kenneth Haigh’ flies through a mysterious cloud and lands at a modern U.S. Airbase in the year 1960.
Episode 19: ‘The Purple Testament’- Lt. Fitzgerald ‘William Reynolds’ has found his own special wartime hell. Looking into the faces of his men prior to battle he has the ability to see whos about to die.
Episode 20: ‘Elegy’- 3 astronauts land on a remote asteroid where everyone is frozen in place. The only who moves is the caretaker who reveals they are in an exclusive cemetary where the deceased’s greatest wishes come right.
Episode 21: ‘Mirror Image’- Millicent Barnes ‘Vera Miles’ spies her exact double at a bus station and becomes convinced the double is trying to take her place in this world. A fellow passenger thinks shes crazy..at first.
Episode 22: ‘The monsters are due on Maple St’- Inexplicable events cause the residents of Maple Street to errupt into rioting. Residents suspect alien invasion.
Episode 23: ‘A World Of Diffrence’- Arthur Curtis ‘Howard Duff’ thinks hes an average businessman living a normal life. Or is he an actor playing a businessman in an office thats really a set?
Episode 24:’ Long live Walter Jameson’- Professor Walter Jameson ‘Kevin McCarthy is a fantastic history teacher who talks about the past as if he lives it. Small can his students imagine…
Episode 25: ‘People are Alike all over’- Space expidition crashes on Mars. Passenger Sam Conrad is terrified when he encounters martians. To his relief they are human, extremely friendly, and apparently just like us.
Episode 26: ‘Execution’- man in 1880 about to be hanged for shooting a man in the back. But his life is spared when a machine throws him into the future. If only he could escape fate as easily…
Episode 27: ‘The Huge Tall Wish’- Over the hill prizefighter gets a boost from a lil boy whos a huge fan in a disillusioned world… an unswerving belief in magic.
Episode 28: ‘A Nice Place to Visit’- After being shot to death a theif encounters white haired pip who gives him everything he wishes.
Episode 29: ‘Nightmare as a Child’- A schoolteacher who has blocked out the details of her Mother’s murder and encounters a weird small girl intent on making her recall the murderer’s identity.
Episode 30: ‘A stop at Willoughby’- Advertising exec cracks under pressure of his job dreaming about a peaceful town called Willoughby.
Episode 31: ‘The Chaser’- Roger Shackleforth ‘George Grizzard’, desperate to win the affection of the gorgeous Leila ‘Patricia Berry’, slips her a like potion. He is overjoyed that the potion works so well.. At First.
Episode 32: ‘A Passage for Trumpet’- After commiting suicide an unsuccessful trumpet player is given a second chance at life.
Episode 33: ‘Mr. Bevis’- A excellent natured, accident prone eccentric whos guardian angel gives him a chance at success.
Episode 34: ‘The After Hours’- A woman, ‘Anne Francis’ discovers that the floor of a department store on which she bought a gold thimble dosent exist and that her saleslady is really a mannequin.
Episode 35: ‘The Mighty Casey’- Baseball team with a robot player.
Episode 36: ‘A World of His Own’- Keenan Wynn is Gregory West, A Noted playwright who discovers he can make anything appear or disappear by just describing it… like his irritable wife or even Rod Serling.
Bonus Features:
Original Pilot Version of ‘Where is Everybody?’ It is introduced by Rod Serling in a filmed sales pitch to the network sponsors.
Also features an alternative narration by Rod Serling. Audio commentary by producer William Self and Rod Serling discusses the episode at a 1975 lecture at Sherwood Oaks College
Netherlands Sales Pitch
Liars Club: An episode of the well loved 1970′s game show by Rod Sterling
Rare Rod Serling Blooper- never before seen outtake
The Twilight Zone Radio Drama: ‘The Lonely starring Mike Starr
Original Twilight Zone Billboards and Photo Galleries
Emmy Awards: Clips from the Emmy Awards Ceremony featuring wins for The Twilight Zone in the writing and Cinematography categories.
The Twilight Zone Comic Book: An issue of the well loved comic from 1963 – DVD-ROM Feature. (Adobe Acrobat required)
Special Features:
Stunning Groundbreaking New Transfers. Remastered from High Definition Transfers using the original camera negatives and magnetic soundtracks
Audio Commentaries by Earl Holliman, Martin Landau, Rod Taylor, Martin Milner, Kevin McCarthy and William Self
Vintage Audio Recollections with Burgess Meredith, Douglas Heyes, Richard L. Bare, Buck Houghton, Anne Francis and Richard Matheson
Rod Serling Audio Lectures from Sherwood Oaks College
Isolated Music Scores featuring the legendary Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith and more
Rod Serling Promo’s for ‘Next Weeks Show’
Original unaired Pilot version of ‘Where is Everybody?’ with Rod Serling’s Network Pitch
Rare Rod Serling Blooper
Ancient time TV Commercials and More!
Overall, Brilliant show and well worth the money. Highly Recommended to any fan.
I want to start this review with something that many are complaining about, the cost of the set. The gripes all seem to be from people who have bought previous versions, and contain a small bit of sour grapes. Of course, I speak from not having bought any of the previous compilations (but nearly did), so I am pleased with the price, since it is 36 episodes after all.
It’s right I am glad I found out about this new version before spending money on the others, but I have to say that this is the set everyone should have. The extras make it so much more than whatever came before. I like the isolated scores, but the best thing are the commentaries. Landau’s for “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” is very fascinating and intelligent. The most surprising one for me, though, was the audio Q&A that Serling had at a college in discussing my favorite episode, “Walking Distance”. It was a shock to learn how much Serling disliked his own writing of the episode many years later. I still reckon the writing shows a fantastic tenderness and sensitivity, but he really turned against it.
Going back to the cost of the set, for a moment, part of the reason for the high price is that they include the book, “The Twilight Zone Companion”, in the box. I already have an edition but it still a excellent thought to include it because of how much more people can get from the episodes by reading about the making of each while watching it. (One terrible part, though: this being a second edition of the book, I don’t know how they could not have fixed up the listing order of the episodes discussed into the way they were aired. It would make it a lot simpler to follow along.)
All in all, I am very glad to own this set, and I look forward to future ones, which will be cheaper because they won’t have the book.
Such things are available at [...] and elsewhere, but their place of origin is most assuredly… The Twilight Zone.
Ah, what can you say about The Twilight Zone? In my humble opinion, it’s a work of art as much as it is a TV show, one of the best television shows *ever.*
You nearly cannot say enough excellent things about this show. For its time, it combined top notch writing, cinematic production values, techniques, and storytelling, and brilliant acting. It has bequeathed a legion of pop culture references to the current generation, its plot twists are legendary, it made its influence felt in so much of what was to come that it would be hard to catalogue it all. Some of the filming techniques such as camera angles and lighting were ahead of their time for television (watch “Third from the Sun” for a excellent example of this). So much of the movies, books, and TV shows that people have found entertaining since the Twilight Zone had their genesis in this show. If you got a group of people together to list all the movies that seem to have borrowed from the Twilight Zone, you end up with quite a staggering list, some of which you may have never thought of yourself! I had that reaction when someone suggested The Twilight Zone episode “Night of the Meek” had a lot in common with “Terrible Santa” and “Perchance to Dream” had much in common with “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”
The Definitive Edition DVD seasons bring you The Twilight Zone as you’ve never seen it before, excellently restored and uncut (not like the butchered syndicated episodes). And extras! You’ve got more *quality* extras than you can shake a stick at! So many DVDs cheap out on extras, the Definitive Edition set(s) give The Twilight Zone the royal treatment it deserves in extra features. They’re all worthwhile.
Here are my favorite extras:
- All the extras associated with the first episode (and there are a ton of them on the disc with the episode and the bonus disc), including the original intros and endings (with a different narrator), Rod Serling’s pitch to the networks, and his college lecture, in which he tells a humorous tale about how he got the thought for the phone booth scene in “Where Is Everybody?”
- Rod Serling’s college lecture on “Walking Distance.”
- Rod Serling’s college lecture on “And When the Sky Was Opened” (it’s informative and hilarious).
- Rod Taylor doing a commentary on “And When the Sky Was Opened” some 40 odd years after it aired!
- Martin Milner’s commentary on “Mirror Image.”
Really, I have to say all the extra features are well worth your time, but generally my favorites are the Marc Zircee interviews and very insightful and some fantastic extras are Rod Serling’s college lectures. Kudos to whoever dug those up, they’re fascinating and entertaining listens! You learn all sorts of things… how Serling often did not regard some things in the shows as very excellent, how he despised the establishing lines in “And When the Sky Was Opened” (this part in the lecture was *hilarious* to me), and you get to learn a very sad tale from the making of the episode “The Mighty Casey.” Zircee’s interviews with various different people, including Richard Matheson, are a treasure as well, thought I don’t always agree with some of his criticisms. We can only wonder what if Zircee had been able to interview Serling, but he had passed on by that time sadly.
Even the commercial bumpers are a treat, a view of a bygone era. The Liar’s Club episode was even rather amusing. If you’re a Twilight Zone fan, you really can’t go incorrect indulging in each and every extra. I know on some DVDs I pass on some of the more stodgy looking extras, in my opinion, they’re all fun (though the commercial sponsor bumpers less so).
Well, enough about the extras, how about the episodes? Fantastic, as I’ve said. Some of the best work you’ll ever see, I reckon. Season 1 has a lot of the best Twilight Zone episodes ever, the cream of the crop. There are ten or so episodes that are only so-so for the Twilight Zone, which means they’re above average television shows, but not top-notch. My favorites from this season include:
Where Is Everybody?
The Lonely (Fantastic, touching tale. Really gives you a fantastic of the spectrum the show would go on to cover.)
Time Enough at Last (Can anything more be written? Classic!)
Perchance to Dream (Very eerie and surreal)
And When the Sky Was Opened (An absolute first-rate classic in every way.)
Third From the Sun (Fantastic tale and acting, stunning visuals, top notch episode.)
I Shot an Arrow Into the Air (Brilliant. The classic “strand astronauts on an unknown planet and get ready for an ironic twist to blow you away” episode. In retrospect the movie “The Planet of the Apes” is like one long Twilight Zone episode.)
The Hitch-Hiker (Going my way? One of the creepiest episodes and a fan favorite, featuring Inger Stevens.)
Mirror Image
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (One of the very best Twilight Zone episodes ever, if I made a top 5 list this would make it. A chilling glance at the what lies beneath the idyllic veneer of post-World War II American suburbia, and an indictment of Cold War paranoia. Incredible episode.)
A World of Difference (Fascinating premise, and very well executed. The acting and the script really make the main character sympathetic and the tale involving.)
People Are Alike All Over (Roddy McDowell is the victim of more interplanetary irony.)
A Nice Place to Visit (A friend of mine once said that the best Twilight Zone endings are those that end with someone laughing and/or screaming. This episode has a nice kick to the gut with some fantastic mocking laughing right before the end narration. Excellent tale.)
A Stop at Willoughby (As pertinent today as it was back then. Many people feel overstressed by the pressures and demands of modern lives. Watch this episode and see people felt similarly back then… and how one man longed for something better. An all-time fan favorite, deservedly so.)
The After Hours (Another creepy episode about a woman who finds something amiss on the 9th floor of a department store.)
A World of His Own (The best Twilight Zone twist ending ever? For comedic value, it’s certainly a contender.)
In conclusion, I recommend this to anyone who is a fan of excellent television and excellent tales. The Twilight Zone may tout itself as science fiction but it is also a way to explore the issues that are pertinent to all humans and the human condition at large.
Right around the time of their release a couple years ago, I invested in Image’s series of five 9-Disc box sets that collected every Twilight Zone episode from the original ’59 series. From a collector’s standpoint, this seemed like a fantastic go, as these sets turned out to be much more affordable than the previous releases, which were 45 individual volumes. I figured I had the collection and could sit back and relax. I really loved the sets (my reviews of them can be found here, as a matter of fact) and watched them ritually once I owned them.
In March 2004 when the rumors first hit that definitive season-by-season sets were to hit, I place my collection on e-bay and received nearly all the money I invested in them in return. Yes, as a diehard TZ fan, I support the definitive releases wholeheartedly. Part of being a DVD collector is knowing that upgrades are imminent. In fact, this may not be the last time I invest in the series… experts forsee Blu-ray coming into play within the next 5 years and a company like Image with no single film or TV property to their name larger than The Twilight Zone may someday release these with HD transfers on Blu-ray disc. DVD, like a cheaper version of Laserdiscs, is ten times the collector’s format that VHS ever was.
In small, Image doesn’t expect everyone to upgrade. They’re not trying to bleed the same customers dry. But they are making a ton of the diehards and DVD collectors truly ecstatic. What hasn’t been mentioned in any of the reviews here yet is THAT THE VIDEO AND AUDIO HAVE GONE THROUGH A RESTORATION PROCESS — they LOOK AND SOUND BETTER than they ever have before, whether your first exposure to them was on CBS in the early 60s, in the late 70s (when the re-runs were very well loved), or during the holiday marathons of the 90s and today on the Sci-Fi Channel. Not only that, but included are Rod Serling’s “Next week…” teasers and, for the first time, audio commentaries by major players in the episodes themselves as well as crew members (Martin Landau in “Mr. Denton…”, Earl Holliman in “Where is Everybody?”, and Kevin McCarthy in “Long Live Walter Jameson” immediately spring to mind). As a TZ diehard, I thought I’d seen and heard as much as I’d ever get to, but Image has place together something new for me to look forward to. The “audio lecture” Amazon refers to is from Sherwood Oaks College and is split into several parts. There is a fantastic deal of discussion regarding “Walking Distance” for instance — and we are able to listen to it while watching the episode at the same time. It runs nearly the entire length of the episode. Real treats also include Zicree’s interviews conducted in the late 70s for the writing of his book with such stars as Burgess Meredith and Anne Francis.
Also — the ancient collections tried to theme the episodes on each disc, but this simply didn’t work for me. Too often I’d only want to watch one of the episodes on a disc and would have to frequently change out. With this set, we’ll be getting the first season which, in a point that is rarely disputed, is the best of the series:
Where Is Everybody?, One for the Angels, Mr. Denton on Doomsday, Sixteen Millimeter Shrine, Walking Distance, Escape Clause, The Lonely, Time Enough at Last, Perchance to Dream, Judgment Night, And When the Sky Was Opened, What You Need, The Four of Us Are Dying, Third from the Sun, I Shot an Arrow into the Air, The Hitch-Hiker, The Fever, The Last Flight, The Purple Testament, Elegy, Mirror Image, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, A World of Difference, Long Live Walter Jameson, People Are Alike All Over, Execution, The Huge Tall Wish, A Nice Place to Visit, Nightmare as a Child, A Stop at Willoughby, The Chaser, A Passage for Trumpet, Mr. Bevis, The After Hours, The Mighty Casey, and A World of His Own.
So while Image doesn’t expect you to double dip, you gotta feel excellent going knowing you have that option someday. I don’t reckon “corporate greed” factors into the equation as much as customer demand from fans like myself (as well as the logical necessity) for one of the best shows of all time to have an exhaustive and organized set of releases. Take care and we’ll see you in the fifth dimension!
I read some of the questions about closed captioning, and thought I would add my two cents. I tried to turn on captions while watching an episode last night and it seems there is no text on the dvd. There were no options for closed captioning or any alternate languages. It does, but have very fascinating bonus features; such as episodes with dialogue removed- showing the impressive score only, commentaries by actors- over 40 years later, current radio-drama remakes of original episodes, among other things such as a Rod Serling lecture & blooper reel. I absolutely like this box set and find it well worth the money. I refrained from buying the original boxed sets because I did not like the format, I am glad I waited, this set truly is the Definitive Edition. The episode guide is helpful, insightful, and reminds me of several wonderful episodes to look forward to on future sets. I have been having a wonderful time revisiting the ancient episodes I used to like watching with my Dad as a kid. Even now, I am amazed at how far ahead of its time TZ really was. The episodes are cleaned up and fantastic quality. If you need the captioning in order to buy the dvd set, I’m sorry- it does not seem to have it available. I would despise to talk anyone out of buying this set, though. I have been enjoying it very much and greatly anticipate the release of following seasons.
Rod Serling was a writer’s writer. His anthology series changed the way that science fiction, fantasy and horror were presented on TV. Although the episodes from the superb first season have been available on various anthologies released by Image Entertainment (and another company), this is the ultimate edition of the series on DVD. The image quality is exceptionally excellent with solid blacks and a crispness missing on some of the earlier sets.
The extras really are what make this worthwhile to pick up. There are new audio commentaries by many of the stars that appeared in the original episodes and also excerpts from the interviews that Marc Scott Zicree conducted for his exhaustive tome THE TWILIGHT ZONE COMPANION. Additionally, there’s an audio lecture that Serling gave. Add in the original promos for forthcoming episodes with Serling, the network pitch, the original cut for the pilot, isolated music scores by such masters as Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Herrmann and you’ve got an outstanding package. Serling’s bloopers show up on this set as well.
The addition of Zicree’s superb “The Twilight Zone Companion” in a smaller format is the perfect book end for these classic episodes of television. Yes, you’ll have to buy it again if you want all this stuff. Is it worth it? Absolutely for hardcore Zone fans this is like finding the Holy Grail. A hats off to Image for doing a terrific job with the first, best season of one of the most original anthology series ever broadcast.
It is absurd that this title has an average rating of below 5 stars. The low average rating is based on reviewers who are upset that they bought older Twilight Zone collections that are now inferior to this superb collection. They feel they were ripped off by CBS video as if CBS plotted on doing this all along. I doubt this was part of some plot. When first issued on DVD, the shows were randomly place together on single discs. Then these single discs were randomly place together in box sets. CBS finally wised up and realized that fans want it all. They want entire seasons on DVDs with extras. So now CBS Video has done it right.
While I know the frustration of seeing the older collections become obsolete, that should NOT be a basis for reviewing this new collection. A review should be based on the product to be reviewed. Not on the company who issued it and not be prejudiced by frustrations of feeling the need to rebuy something. My review is based on what I received from CBS Video by way of Amazon.
This collection is how DVD collections should be done. It is comprehensive in that it contains all of the Twilight Zone episodes from the first season in the order they originally aired. It comes in slim cases, so it doesn’t take up too much space. The attractive packaging for each slip case has information on the episodes contained on the disc in the case. The shows have been remastered from high quality original sources. They look superb. There are also some fascinating extras, including commentaries, Rod Serling lectures, bloopers and Serling’s network pitch for the pilot show. As for the 36 episodes from season one, nearly all brilliant, with some being outright classics.
My personal favorite is “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” which combines prejudice, morality and science fiction without preaching. Other classics include “Walking Distance,” “Time Enough At Last,” “People Are Alike All Over” and “A Stop At Willoughby.” Fantastic acting makes “One For The Angels” and “A Passage For Trumpet” must viewing. Creepy camera angles make “Third From The Sun” an fascinating viewing experience. “And When The Sky Was Opened,” “The Hitch-Hiker” and “The After Hours” are both terrifying and unforgetable. The final show, “A World of His Own” is clever and humorous.
And as a special bonus, the set includes a reduced size edition of the excellect book “The Twilight Zone Companion.”
This is what every DVD collection should be like. A right five star collection.
This new DVD version of The Twilight Zone 1959 Season One is remastered from the original camera negatives and the original magnetic soundtracks. It has the best picture quality ever and is a fantastic set for fans.
This six disc set is packed with some wonderful extras-
*Audio commentaries by Earl Holliman,Martin Landau,Rod Taylor,Martin Milner,Kevin McCarthy,Ted Post and William Self.
*Vintage audio recollections with Burgess Meredith,Douglas Heyes,Richard L Bare,Buck Houghton,Ann Francis and writer Richard Matheson.
*Rod Serling audio lectures from Sherwood Oaks College.
*Isolated music scores from Bernard Herrman,Jerry Goldsmith and more.
*Rod Serling promos from “next weeks show”.
*The original unaired pilot from “Where Is Everybody?” with Rod Serling’s Network pitch.
*Rare Rod Serling blooper.
Some information about the above audio commentaries- Ann Francis starred in the classic 1950′s movie “Forbidden Planet,Kevin McCarthy starred in the original 1950′s version of “The Thing”,Rod Taylor starred in the classic Hitchcock movie “The Birds” and the 1960 George Pal classic “The Time Machine”.
Martin Landau guest-starred in both the original 1959 and 1985 versions of The Twilight Zone as well as the original “Mission Impossible” and “Space 1999″.
Writer Richard Matheson also wrote tales for both of the original and 1985 Twilight Zone series.
This classic television show has become part of western culture and language. People now the term use the term “in the Twilight Zone” for description in newspapers or interviews. It’s starting do-do-do-do theme has now become part of the culture and is used to denote something weird happening. The singing group Manhatten Transfer even had a top ten record with the title.
One note of criticism- this new version is a wonderful effort for a show that is 45 years ancient,but fans that have bought previous sets could be entitled to question why this wasn’t done in the first place,some having spent many hundreds of dollars on the three previous releases. Firstly,we had the “best of” TZ 40 episode set followed by the 4 episode discs sets followed by the Volume 1 through to Vol 5 sets. And now we have this new set. That is enough to test the patience of any fans and they have every right to complain at this sort of exploitation.
In a few years,I predict that a new TZ set in high definition will be released.
So fans,if you want the definitive(we hope)DVD box set on the original Twilight Zone,then sell your other copies and buy this.
It is really well done and hopefully fans can keep this for many years to come.
Rating
The Twilight Zone, Season 1 is the best The Twilight Zone has ever looked…they remastered all of it and the picture quality can not be beat…it is crystal clear..and Rod Serling is and will always be a master of his craft…money well well well spent..you will delight in this for years to come…my 10 year ancient son is now into it!!
Rating
List and Description of Episodes and Special Features:
Season 1
Episode 1: ‘Where is Everybody?’- Earl Holliman stars as a man on the edge of hysteria in a deserted town. Despite the emptiness, he has the weirdest feeling hes being watched.
Episode 2: ‘One for the Angels’- A Salesman cleverly eludes death. But if he lives a small girl must die in his place. Only the salesman greatest pitch can save her.
Episode 3: ‘Mr. Denton on Doomsday’- A drunk of a gunslinger finds his quick draw abilities can be restored by drinking a magic potion.
Episode 4: ‘The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine’- an aging former movie star lives and dreams in the past. She refuses to leave her screening room until she disapears.
Episode 5: ‘Walking Distance’- Martin Sloan is plays a frazzled executive who learns that you can go home again after he steps back in time and meets his mom his dad and himself.
Episode 6: ‘Escape Clause’- A hypocondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.
Episode 7: ‘The Lonely’- A convicted murderer incarcerated on a distant asteroid and is dying of lonliness.
Episode 8: ‘Time Enough at Last’- A Bookworm yearns for more time to read, then a nuclear holocaust leaves him alone in the world with lots of time, plenty to read and an ironic twist.
Episode 9: ‘Penchance to Dream’- A man whos terrified of falling asleep in dread he might die. His pursuer? A mysterious vixen he meets in his dreams.
Episode 10: ‘Judgement Night’- 1942, a german wonders why he is on the deck of a British Steamship with no memory of how he got there and impending doom.
Episode 11: ‘And When the Sky was Opened’- Col. Clegg Forbes ‘Rip Taylor’ and 2 astronauts return from their space flight. They soon learn that no one remembers them as if they never even existed.
Episode 12: ‘What You Need’- Two bit thug thinks hes found the key to a better life in and ancient sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what ‘they need’ most.
Episode 13: ‘The Four of us are Dying’- Gifted with the ability to change his face Arch Hammer devises a plot to elevate himself. The plot works perfectly until he’s caught with the incorrect face at the incorrect time.
Episode 14: ‘Third from the Sun’- William Surka and a friend steal an experimental spaceship and go off to an unknown planet.
Episode 15: I shot an Arrow into the Air’- The worlds first manned space mission goes awry stranding the crew on an asteroid that is desolate and waterless. One man ruthlessly grasps for survival before a peculiar symbol reveals the groups right location.
Episode 16: ‘The Hitchhiker’- Alone on a cross country trip Nan Adams ‘Inger Stevens’ has a blowout. Surviving the incident, she gets back on the road, only to see the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks.
Episode 17: ‘The Fever’- Tight fisted Franklin Gibbs is not pleased when his wife wins a trip for 2 to Vegas. But things change when he falls under the spell of a slot machine that calls his name!
Episode 18: ‘The Last Flight’- World War One flying ace ‘Kenneth Haigh’ flies through a mysterious cloud and lands at a modern U.S. Airbase in the year 1960.
Episode 19: ‘The Purple Testament’- Lt. Fitzgerald ‘William Reynolds’ has found his own special wartime hell. Looking into the faces of his men prior to battle he has the ability to see whos about to die.
Episode 20: ‘Elegy’- 3 astronauts land on a remote asteroid where everyone is frozen in place. The only who moves is the caretaker who reveals they are in an exclusive cemetary where the deceased’s greatest wishes come right.
Episode 21: ‘Mirror Image’- Millicent Barnes ‘Vera Miles’ spies her exact double at a bus station and becomes convinced the double is trying to take her place in this world. A fellow passenger thinks shes crazy..at first.
Episode 22: ‘The monsters are due on Maple St’- Inexplicable events cause the residents of Maple Street to errupt into rioting. Residents suspect alien invasion.
Episode 23: ‘A World Of Diffrence’- Arthur Curtis ‘Howard Duff’ thinks hes an average businessman living a normal life. Or is he an actor playing a businessman in an office thats really a set?
Episode 24:’ Long live Walter Jameson’- Professor Walter Jameson ‘Kevin McCarthy is a fantastic history teacher who talks about the past as if he lives it. Small can his students imagine…
Episode 25: ‘People are Alike all over’- Space expidition crashes on Mars. Passenger Sam Conrad is terrified when he encounters martians. To his relief they are human, extremely friendly, and apparently just like us.
Episode 26: ‘Execution’- man in 1880 about to be hanged for shooting a man in the back. But his life is spared when a machine throws him into the future. If only he could escape fate as easily…
Episode 27: ‘The Huge Tall Wish’- Over the hill prizefighter gets a boost from a lil boy whos a huge fan in a disillusioned world… an unswerving belief in magic.
Episode 28: ‘A Nice Place to Visit’- After being shot to death a theif encounters white haired pip who gives him everything he wishes.
Episode 29: ‘Nightmare as a Child’- A schoolteacher who has blocked out the details of her Mother’s murder and encounters a weird small girl intent on making her recall the murderer’s identity.
Episode 30: ‘A stop at Willoughby’- Advertising exec cracks under pressure of his job dreaming about a peaceful town called Willoughby.
Episode 31: ‘The Chaser’- Roger Shackleforth ‘George Grizzard’, desperate to win the affection of the gorgeous Leila ‘Patricia Berry’, slips her a like potion. He is overjoyed that the potion works so well.. At First.
Episode 32: ‘A Passage for Trumpet’- After commiting suicide an unsuccessful trumpet player is given a second chance at life.
Episode 33: ‘Mr. Bevis’- A excellent natured, accident prone eccentric whos guardian angel gives him a chance at success.
Episode 34: ‘The After Hours’- A woman, ‘Anne Francis’ discovers that the floor of a department store on which she bought a gold thimble dosent exist and that her saleslady is really a mannequin.
Episode 35: ‘The Mighty Casey’- Baseball team with a robot player.
Episode 36: ‘A World of His Own’- Keenan Wynn is Gregory West, A Noted playwright who discovers he can make anything appear or disappear by just describing it… like his irritable wife or even Rod Serling.
Bonus Features:
Original Pilot Version of ‘Where is Everybody?’ It is introduced by Rod Serling in a filmed sales pitch to the network sponsors.
Also features an alternative narration by Rod Serling. Audio commentary by producer William Self and Rod Serling discusses the episode at a 1975 lecture at Sherwood Oaks College
Netherlands Sales Pitch
Liars Club: An episode of the well loved 1970′s game show by Rod Sterling
Rare Rod Serling Blooper- never before seen outtake
The Twilight Zone Radio Drama: ‘The Lonely starring Mike Starr
Original Twilight Zone Billboards and Photo Galleries
Emmy Awards: Clips from the Emmy Awards Ceremony featuring wins for The Twilight Zone in the writing and Cinematography categories.
The Twilight Zone Comic Book: An issue of the well loved comic from 1963 – DVD-ROM Feature. (Adobe Acrobat required)
Special Features:
Stunning Groundbreaking New Transfers. Remastered from High Definition Transfers using the original camera negatives and magnetic soundtracks
Audio Commentaries by Earl Holliman, Martin Landau, Rod Taylor, Martin Milner, Kevin McCarthy and William Self
Vintage Audio Recollections with Burgess Meredith, Douglas Heyes, Richard L. Bare, Buck Houghton, Anne Francis and Richard Matheson
Rod Serling Audio Lectures from Sherwood Oaks College
Isolated Music Scores featuring the legendary Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith and more
Rod Serling Promo’s for ‘Next Weeks Show’
Original unaired Pilot version of ‘Where is Everybody?’ with Rod Serling’s Network Pitch
Rare Rod Serling Blooper
Ancient time TV Commercials and More!
Overall, Brilliant show and well worth the money. Highly Recommended to any fan.
Rating
The Twilight Zone brings back fond memories of my youth when I
faithfuly watched the program every Friday night. I have always
been fascinated with going back in time or a different era from
the present. If you delight in the same I recommend the Twilight Zone
as only Rod Serling can present it. I am plotting to buy the
whole series. John Vandelden.
P.S. Amazon was very efficient in expiditing my order. Thanks.
Rating
I want to start this review with something that many are complaining about, the cost of the set. The gripes all seem to be from people who have bought previous versions, and contain a small bit of sour grapes. Of course, I speak from not having bought any of the previous compilations (but nearly did), so I am pleased with the price, since it is 36 episodes after all.
It’s right I am glad I found out about this new version before spending money on the others, but I have to say that this is the set everyone should have. The extras make it so much more than whatever came before. I like the isolated scores, but the best thing are the commentaries. Landau’s for “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” is very fascinating and intelligent. The most surprising one for me, though, was the audio Q&A that Serling had at a college in discussing my favorite episode, “Walking Distance”. It was a shock to learn how much Serling disliked his own writing of the episode many years later. I still reckon the writing shows a fantastic tenderness and sensitivity, but he really turned against it.
Going back to the cost of the set, for a moment, part of the reason for the high price is that they include the book, “The Twilight Zone Companion”, in the box. I already have an edition but it still a excellent thought to include it because of how much more people can get from the episodes by reading about the making of each while watching it. (One terrible part, though: this being a second edition of the book, I don’t know how they could not have fixed up the listing order of the episodes discussed into the way they were aired. It would make it a lot simpler to follow along.)
All in all, I am very glad to own this set, and I look forward to future ones, which will be cheaper because they won’t have the book.
Rating
Such things are available at [...] and elsewhere, but their place of origin is most assuredly… The Twilight Zone.
Ah, what can you say about The Twilight Zone? In my humble opinion, it’s a work of art as much as it is a TV show, one of the best television shows *ever.*
You nearly cannot say enough excellent things about this show. For its time, it combined top notch writing, cinematic production values, techniques, and storytelling, and brilliant acting. It has bequeathed a legion of pop culture references to the current generation, its plot twists are legendary, it made its influence felt in so much of what was to come that it would be hard to catalogue it all. Some of the filming techniques such as camera angles and lighting were ahead of their time for television (watch “Third from the Sun” for a excellent example of this). So much of the movies, books, and TV shows that people have found entertaining since the Twilight Zone had their genesis in this show. If you got a group of people together to list all the movies that seem to have borrowed from the Twilight Zone, you end up with quite a staggering list, some of which you may have never thought of yourself! I had that reaction when someone suggested The Twilight Zone episode “Night of the Meek” had a lot in common with “Terrible Santa” and “Perchance to Dream” had much in common with “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”
The Definitive Edition DVD seasons bring you The Twilight Zone as you’ve never seen it before, excellently restored and uncut (not like the butchered syndicated episodes). And extras! You’ve got more *quality* extras than you can shake a stick at! So many DVDs cheap out on extras, the Definitive Edition set(s) give The Twilight Zone the royal treatment it deserves in extra features. They’re all worthwhile.
Here are my favorite extras:
- All the extras associated with the first episode (and there are a ton of them on the disc with the episode and the bonus disc), including the original intros and endings (with a different narrator), Rod Serling’s pitch to the networks, and his college lecture, in which he tells a humorous tale about how he got the thought for the phone booth scene in “Where Is Everybody?”
- Rod Serling’s college lecture on “Walking Distance.”
- Rod Serling’s college lecture on “And When the Sky Was Opened” (it’s informative and hilarious).
- Rod Taylor doing a commentary on “And When the Sky Was Opened” some 40 odd years after it aired!
- Martin Milner’s commentary on “Mirror Image.”
Really, I have to say all the extra features are well worth your time, but generally my favorites are the Marc Zircee interviews and very insightful and some fantastic extras are Rod Serling’s college lectures. Kudos to whoever dug those up, they’re fascinating and entertaining listens! You learn all sorts of things… how Serling often did not regard some things in the shows as very excellent, how he despised the establishing lines in “And When the Sky Was Opened” (this part in the lecture was *hilarious* to me), and you get to learn a very sad tale from the making of the episode “The Mighty Casey.” Zircee’s interviews with various different people, including Richard Matheson, are a treasure as well, thought I don’t always agree with some of his criticisms. We can only wonder what if Zircee had been able to interview Serling, but he had passed on by that time sadly.
Even the commercial bumpers are a treat, a view of a bygone era. The Liar’s Club episode was even rather amusing. If you’re a Twilight Zone fan, you really can’t go incorrect indulging in each and every extra. I know on some DVDs I pass on some of the more stodgy looking extras, in my opinion, they’re all fun (though the commercial sponsor bumpers less so).
Well, enough about the extras, how about the episodes? Fantastic, as I’ve said. Some of the best work you’ll ever see, I reckon. Season 1 has a lot of the best Twilight Zone episodes ever, the cream of the crop. There are ten or so episodes that are only so-so for the Twilight Zone, which means they’re above average television shows, but not top-notch. My favorites from this season include:
Where Is Everybody?
The Lonely (Fantastic, touching tale. Really gives you a fantastic of the spectrum the show would go on to cover.)
Time Enough at Last (Can anything more be written? Classic!)
Perchance to Dream (Very eerie and surreal)
And When the Sky Was Opened (An absolute first-rate classic in every way.)
Third From the Sun (Fantastic tale and acting, stunning visuals, top notch episode.)
I Shot an Arrow Into the Air (Brilliant. The classic “strand astronauts on an unknown planet and get ready for an ironic twist to blow you away” episode. In retrospect the movie “The Planet of the Apes” is like one long Twilight Zone episode.)
The Hitch-Hiker (Going my way? One of the creepiest episodes and a fan favorite, featuring Inger Stevens.)
Mirror Image
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (One of the very best Twilight Zone episodes ever, if I made a top 5 list this would make it. A chilling glance at the what lies beneath the idyllic veneer of post-World War II American suburbia, and an indictment of Cold War paranoia. Incredible episode.)
A World of Difference (Fascinating premise, and very well executed. The acting and the script really make the main character sympathetic and the tale involving.)
People Are Alike All Over (Roddy McDowell is the victim of more interplanetary irony.)
A Nice Place to Visit (A friend of mine once said that the best Twilight Zone endings are those that end with someone laughing and/or screaming. This episode has a nice kick to the gut with some fantastic mocking laughing right before the end narration. Excellent tale.)
A Stop at Willoughby (As pertinent today as it was back then. Many people feel overstressed by the pressures and demands of modern lives. Watch this episode and see people felt similarly back then… and how one man longed for something better. An all-time fan favorite, deservedly so.)
The After Hours (Another creepy episode about a woman who finds something amiss on the 9th floor of a department store.)
A World of His Own (The best Twilight Zone twist ending ever? For comedic value, it’s certainly a contender.)
In conclusion, I recommend this to anyone who is a fan of excellent television and excellent tales. The Twilight Zone may tout itself as science fiction but it is also a way to explore the issues that are pertinent to all humans and the human condition at large.
Rating
Right around the time of their release a couple years ago, I invested in Image’s series of five 9-Disc box sets that collected every Twilight Zone episode from the original ’59 series. From a collector’s standpoint, this seemed like a fantastic go, as these sets turned out to be much more affordable than the previous releases, which were 45 individual volumes. I figured I had the collection and could sit back and relax. I really loved the sets (my reviews of them can be found here, as a matter of fact) and watched them ritually once I owned them.
In March 2004 when the rumors first hit that definitive season-by-season sets were to hit, I place my collection on e-bay and received nearly all the money I invested in them in return. Yes, as a diehard TZ fan, I support the definitive releases wholeheartedly. Part of being a DVD collector is knowing that upgrades are imminent. In fact, this may not be the last time I invest in the series… experts forsee Blu-ray coming into play within the next 5 years and a company like Image with no single film or TV property to their name larger than The Twilight Zone may someday release these with HD transfers on Blu-ray disc. DVD, like a cheaper version of Laserdiscs, is ten times the collector’s format that VHS ever was.
In small, Image doesn’t expect everyone to upgrade. They’re not trying to bleed the same customers dry. But they are making a ton of the diehards and DVD collectors truly ecstatic. What hasn’t been mentioned in any of the reviews here yet is THAT THE VIDEO AND AUDIO HAVE GONE THROUGH A RESTORATION PROCESS — they LOOK AND SOUND BETTER than they ever have before, whether your first exposure to them was on CBS in the early 60s, in the late 70s (when the re-runs were very well loved), or during the holiday marathons of the 90s and today on the Sci-Fi Channel. Not only that, but included are Rod Serling’s “Next week…” teasers and, for the first time, audio commentaries by major players in the episodes themselves as well as crew members (Martin Landau in “Mr. Denton…”, Earl Holliman in “Where is Everybody?”, and Kevin McCarthy in “Long Live Walter Jameson” immediately spring to mind). As a TZ diehard, I thought I’d seen and heard as much as I’d ever get to, but Image has place together something new for me to look forward to. The “audio lecture” Amazon refers to is from Sherwood Oaks College and is split into several parts. There is a fantastic deal of discussion regarding “Walking Distance” for instance — and we are able to listen to it while watching the episode at the same time. It runs nearly the entire length of the episode. Real treats also include Zicree’s interviews conducted in the late 70s for the writing of his book with such stars as Burgess Meredith and Anne Francis.
Also — the ancient collections tried to theme the episodes on each disc, but this simply didn’t work for me. Too often I’d only want to watch one of the episodes on a disc and would have to frequently change out. With this set, we’ll be getting the first season which, in a point that is rarely disputed, is the best of the series:
Where Is Everybody?, One for the Angels, Mr. Denton on Doomsday, Sixteen Millimeter Shrine, Walking Distance, Escape Clause, The Lonely, Time Enough at Last, Perchance to Dream, Judgment Night, And When the Sky Was Opened, What You Need, The Four of Us Are Dying, Third from the Sun, I Shot an Arrow into the Air, The Hitch-Hiker, The Fever, The Last Flight, The Purple Testament, Elegy, Mirror Image, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, A World of Difference, Long Live Walter Jameson, People Are Alike All Over, Execution, The Huge Tall Wish, A Nice Place to Visit, Nightmare as a Child, A Stop at Willoughby, The Chaser, A Passage for Trumpet, Mr. Bevis, The After Hours, The Mighty Casey, and A World of His Own.
So while Image doesn’t expect you to double dip, you gotta feel excellent going knowing you have that option someday. I don’t reckon “corporate greed” factors into the equation as much as customer demand from fans like myself (as well as the logical necessity) for one of the best shows of all time to have an exhaustive and organized set of releases. Take care and we’ll see you in the fifth dimension!
Rating
I read some of the questions about closed captioning, and thought I would add my two cents. I tried to turn on captions while watching an episode last night and it seems there is no text on the dvd. There were no options for closed captioning or any alternate languages. It does, but have very fascinating bonus features; such as episodes with dialogue removed- showing the impressive score only, commentaries by actors- over 40 years later, current radio-drama remakes of original episodes, among other things such as a Rod Serling lecture & blooper reel. I absolutely like this box set and find it well worth the money. I refrained from buying the original boxed sets because I did not like the format, I am glad I waited, this set truly is the Definitive Edition. The episode guide is helpful, insightful, and reminds me of several wonderful episodes to look forward to on future sets. I have been having a wonderful time revisiting the ancient episodes I used to like watching with my Dad as a kid. Even now, I am amazed at how far ahead of its time TZ really was. The episodes are cleaned up and fantastic quality. If you need the captioning in order to buy the dvd set, I’m sorry- it does not seem to have it available. I would despise to talk anyone out of buying this set, though. I have been enjoying it very much and greatly anticipate the release of following seasons.
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Rod Serling was a writer’s writer. His anthology series changed the way that science fiction, fantasy and horror were presented on TV. Although the episodes from the superb first season have been available on various anthologies released by Image Entertainment (and another company), this is the ultimate edition of the series on DVD. The image quality is exceptionally excellent with solid blacks and a crispness missing on some of the earlier sets.
The extras really are what make this worthwhile to pick up. There are new audio commentaries by many of the stars that appeared in the original episodes and also excerpts from the interviews that Marc Scott Zicree conducted for his exhaustive tome THE TWILIGHT ZONE COMPANION. Additionally, there’s an audio lecture that Serling gave. Add in the original promos for forthcoming episodes with Serling, the network pitch, the original cut for the pilot, isolated music scores by such masters as Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Herrmann and you’ve got an outstanding package. Serling’s bloopers show up on this set as well.
The addition of Zicree’s superb “The Twilight Zone Companion” in a smaller format is the perfect book end for these classic episodes of television. Yes, you’ll have to buy it again if you want all this stuff. Is it worth it? Absolutely for hardcore Zone fans this is like finding the Holy Grail. A hats off to Image for doing a terrific job with the first, best season of one of the most original anthology series ever broadcast.
Rating
It is absurd that this title has an average rating of below 5 stars. The low average rating is based on reviewers who are upset that they bought older Twilight Zone collections that are now inferior to this superb collection. They feel they were ripped off by CBS video as if CBS plotted on doing this all along. I doubt this was part of some plot. When first issued on DVD, the shows were randomly place together on single discs. Then these single discs were randomly place together in box sets. CBS finally wised up and realized that fans want it all. They want entire seasons on DVDs with extras. So now CBS Video has done it right.
While I know the frustration of seeing the older collections become obsolete, that should NOT be a basis for reviewing this new collection. A review should be based on the product to be reviewed. Not on the company who issued it and not be prejudiced by frustrations of feeling the need to rebuy something. My review is based on what I received from CBS Video by way of Amazon.
This collection is how DVD collections should be done. It is comprehensive in that it contains all of the Twilight Zone episodes from the first season in the order they originally aired. It comes in slim cases, so it doesn’t take up too much space. The attractive packaging for each slip case has information on the episodes contained on the disc in the case. The shows have been remastered from high quality original sources. They look superb. There are also some fascinating extras, including commentaries, Rod Serling lectures, bloopers and Serling’s network pitch for the pilot show. As for the 36 episodes from season one, nearly all brilliant, with some being outright classics.
My personal favorite is “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” which combines prejudice, morality and science fiction without preaching. Other classics include “Walking Distance,” “Time Enough At Last,” “People Are Alike All Over” and “A Stop At Willoughby.” Fantastic acting makes “One For The Angels” and “A Passage For Trumpet” must viewing. Creepy camera angles make “Third From The Sun” an fascinating viewing experience. “And When The Sky Was Opened,” “The Hitch-Hiker” and “The After Hours” are both terrifying and unforgetable. The final show, “A World of His Own” is clever and humorous.
And as a special bonus, the set includes a reduced size edition of the excellect book “The Twilight Zone Companion.”
This is what every DVD collection should be like. A right five star collection.
Rating
This new DVD version of The Twilight Zone 1959 Season One is remastered from the original camera negatives and the original magnetic soundtracks. It has the best picture quality ever and is a fantastic set for fans.
This six disc set is packed with some wonderful extras-
*Audio commentaries by Earl Holliman,Martin Landau,Rod Taylor,Martin Milner,Kevin McCarthy,Ted Post and William Self.
*Vintage audio recollections with Burgess Meredith,Douglas Heyes,Richard L Bare,Buck Houghton,Ann Francis and writer Richard Matheson.
*Rod Serling audio lectures from Sherwood Oaks College.
*Isolated music scores from Bernard Herrman,Jerry Goldsmith and more.
*Rod Serling promos from “next weeks show”.
*The original unaired pilot from “Where Is Everybody?” with Rod Serling’s Network pitch.
*Rare Rod Serling blooper.
Some information about the above audio commentaries- Ann Francis starred in the classic 1950′s movie “Forbidden Planet,Kevin McCarthy starred in the original 1950′s version of “The Thing”,Rod Taylor starred in the classic Hitchcock movie “The Birds” and the 1960 George Pal classic “The Time Machine”.
Martin Landau guest-starred in both the original 1959 and 1985 versions of The Twilight Zone as well as the original “Mission Impossible” and “Space 1999″.
Writer Richard Matheson also wrote tales for both of the original and 1985 Twilight Zone series.
This classic television show has become part of western culture and language. People now the term use the term “in the Twilight Zone” for description in newspapers or interviews. It’s starting do-do-do-do theme has now become part of the culture and is used to denote something weird happening. The singing group Manhatten Transfer even had a top ten record with the title.
One note of criticism- this new version is a wonderful effort for a show that is 45 years ancient,but fans that have bought previous sets could be entitled to question why this wasn’t done in the first place,some having spent many hundreds of dollars on the three previous releases. Firstly,we had the “best of” TZ 40 episode set followed by the 4 episode discs sets followed by the Volume 1 through to Vol 5 sets. And now we have this new set. That is enough to test the patience of any fans and they have every right to complain at this sort of exploitation.
In a few years,I predict that a new TZ set in high definition will be released.
So fans,if you want the definitive(we hope)DVD box set on the original Twilight Zone,then sell your other copies and buy this.
It is really well done and hopefully fans can keep this for many years to come.